- 1833 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1833 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
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January 29 - In the United Kingdom general election,Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet , defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
*April 2 - Launch of HMS Royal William atPembroke Dock . This was the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.
*Isaac Williams becomes Dean ofTrinity College, Oxford .
*Lady Charlotte Bertie marriesJohn Josiah Guest .
*Adrian Stephens invents thesteam whistle as a safety device for use atDowlais Ironworks ; he fails to patent it.Arts and literature
New books
*Sir
Harford Jones Brydges - "The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript"
*Eliza Constantia Campbell - "Stories from the History of Wales"Music
*David James - "Myfyrdawd"
Births
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January 10 -Richard Davies (Mynyddog) , poet (d. 1877)
*January 23 - Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
*July 6 -David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
*July 12 -John Hugh Evans , Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
*August 20 - General SirJames Hills-Johnes , military leader (d. 1919)
*"date unknown" -James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
**Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)Deaths
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January 9 - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral, 75
*February 6 -Robert Waithman , lord mayor of London, 69
*February 26 - Richard Jones, minister and writer, 61
*May 4 - William Morgan, scientist and actuary 82
*October 1 -Thomas Beynon , archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of the arts, 88
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